Noun
A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA charterhouse is any monastery belonging to the Carthusian order. Source: Internet
Examines the abbeys rebuilt after 1850 (by benefactors among the Catholic aristocracy and recusant squirearchy), mainly Benedictine but including a Cistercian Abbey at Mount St. Bernard (by Pugin) and a Carthusian Charterhouse in Sussex. Source: Internet
In 1714, at age 11, Wesley was sent to the Charterhouse School in London (under the mastership of John King from 1715), where he lived the studious, methodical and, for a while, religious life in which he had been trained at home. Source: Internet
London:Cistercian Publications, 1999 (Paperback,ISBN 0-87907-786-7) *The Wound of Love, A Carthusian miscellany by priors and novice masters on various topics relating to the monastic ideal as lived in a charterhouse in our day. Source: Internet
In his final year at Charterhouse, he won a classical exhibition to St John's College, Oxford but did not take his place there until after the war. Source: Internet
Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Source: Internet